The Most Beautiful Man in the World
Andrea Gatopoulos: Digital Prophecies
A family taboo, a missing story. Using twenty-five photographs and the cold readings of artificial intelligence against his mother’s warm memories, a nephew reconstructs the life of Michele, an uncle lost to HIV and heroin in 1980s/1990s Italy, exploring memory, the value of images, and the things that remain unspoken.
- Italy
- 2026, 17 min
- Director: Paolo Baiguera
- Screenplay: Paolo Baiguera
- Sound: Marco Falloni, Marta Billingsley
- Coproduction: Ring Film, 5e6
- Producer: Andrea Gatopoulos
- Production: Il Varco Cinema
Paolo Baiguera
Paolo Baiguera is a director and filmmaker who has worked with Sky, Rai, Kon-Tiki, Indigo Film, and Ring Film. In 2023, he began working with Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis on the feature Testa o Croce? (2025), which was screeened at Un Certain Regard in Cannes in 2025. His debut short, The Lost Child, premiered at the 2025 Venice Critics’ Week, where it received special mention.